Defensive Tactics

Loren W. Christensen

Description

Whether you are a law enforcement officer seeking to improve your edge or a martial artist wanting to expand your knowledge of street-proven techniques, you will find Defensive Tactics: Street-Proven Arrest and Control Techniques is filled with invaluable information to prepare you for even the most difficult scenarios.

Highlights include:

• Joint manipulation that works


• Leverage control vs. pain control


• Striking with the hands, feet, forearms, and elbows


• Safely and quickly crossing the gap


• Blocking an assailant’s strikes


• Using vulnerable points to gain compliance


• Head disorientation


• Safe application of carotid constriction or “sleeper” holds


• Controlling a suspect on the ground


• Arresting big guys


• Fighting concepts to take on patrol


• Weapon retention in close quarters and on the ground

Loren W. Christensen is a retired cop and high-ranking martial artist who survived everything the mean streets threw at him, working patrol, gang enforcement, and dignitary protection. Defensive Tactics goes beyond what is taught in the academy, during an officer’s in-service training, and what is allowed by the administration.

This book also includes a chapter on proven ways to control a suspect on the ground, written by LAPD officer Mark Mireles, an MMA coach, police academy trainer, and champion wrestler.

Sujets

• SAFETY
• Mugging
• Self-defense
• Travel
• Martial arts
• Kidnap
• Campus
• Stalker
• Râpe
• Police
• Défense personnelle
• Abduction

Informations

• Publié par: YMAA Publication Center
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 7
• EAN13: 9781594394874
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

Extrait

Defensive Tactics
Modern Arrest And Control Techniques For Today’s Police Warrior
by
Loren W. Christensen
YMAA Publication Center, Inc.
Wolfeboro, NH USA
YMAA Publication Center, Inc.
PO Box 480
Wolfeboro, NH 03894
800 669-8892 • www.ymaa.com • [e-mail]
Paperback ISBN: 9781594394867 (print) • ISBN: 9781594394874 (ebook)
All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
Copyright © 2008, 2016 by Loren W. Christensen
Publisher’s Cataloging in Publication
Christensen, Loren W.
Defensive tactics : modern arrest and control techniques for today’s police warrior / by Loren W. Christensen. -- 1st ed.
     p. cm.
ISBN 9781594394867
1. Police training. I. Title.
HV7923.C53 2008
363.2’3--dc22
2016909486
The author and publisher of the material are NOT RESPONSIBLE in any manner whatsoever for any injury that may occur through reading or following the instructions in this manual.
The activities, physical or otherwise, described in this manual may be too strenuous or dangerous for some people, and the reader(s) should consult a physician before engaging in them.
Warning: While self-defense is legal, fighting is illegal. If you don’t know the difference, you’ll go to jail because you aren’t defending yourself. You are fighting—or worse. Readers are encouraged to be aware of all appropriate local and national laws relating to self-defense, reasonable force, and the use of weaponry, and act in accordance with all applicable laws at all times. Understand that while legal definitions and interpretations are generally uniform, there are small—but very important—differences from state to state and even city to city. To stay out of jail, you need to know these differences. Neither the author nor the publisher assumes any responsibility for the use or misuse of information contained in this book.
Nothing in this document constitutes a legal opinion, nor should any of its contents be treated as such. While the author believes everything herein is accurate, any questions regarding specific self-defense situations, legal liability, and/or interpretation of federal, state, or local laws should always be addressed by an attorney at law.
When it comes to martial arts, self-defense, and related topics, no text, no matter how well written, can substitute for professional, hands-on instruction. These materials should be used for academic study only.
Table of Contents
Introduction
SECTION 1: THE FOUNDATION: NUTS AND BOLTS
Chapter 1: Thinking Ahead
Adrenaline Response
The Power Of Combat Breathing
How to do it
The Importance Of Visualizing
Visualize the confrontation
Chapter 2: The Value of Reps
It’s All About Reps
Line Drill: Attack And Response
Monkey Line Drill
Chapter 3: The Elements of Balance
The Tripod Concept
The invisible third leg
Be cognizant of your position
Using the tripod to your advantage
Kuzushi
Handcuffing
Mental Kuzushi
Developing self-awareness
Chapter 4: Crossing the Gap
Moving into Range
A potentially dangerous moment
His body language
Your stance
Timing the move
Where to move
How to grab
Chapter 5: Blocking
Blocking and Shielding
Shielding
Chapter 6: Weight Training and Aerobics
Fast-twitch muscle fibers
Aerobic and anaerobic
SECTION 2: JOINT MANIPULATION AND LEVERAGE CONTROL
Chapter 7: Finger Techniques
Elements of Applying Finger Techniques
Applications
Chapter 8: The Versatile Wristlock
Elements of the Wristlock
Standing Suspect
Downed Suspect
Wristlock takedowns
When the suspect resists your grab
Wristlock Pickups
Elements of the Wrist Twist
Applications
Inverted Wrist Flex
Elements of inverted wrist flex
Applications
Chapter 9: Wrist Crank
Elements of the Wrist Crank
Applications
Handcuffing from the wrist crank position
Chapter 10: Elbow Techniques
Armbar
Elements of the Armbar
Applications
Chapter 11: Shoulder Locks
Elements of the Shoulder Lock
The steps
Applications
Chapter 12: Bent-Arm Shoulder Torque
Elements of the Bent-arm Shoulder Torque
Applications
As a Control Hold
Chin pull
Handcuffing Position
Takedowns
SECTION 3: HITTING
Chapter 13: Hands
Elements of Hand Striking
When to hit
Fist and Palm-heel Targets
Applications
Chapter 14: Forearm Slams
Elements of the Outside Forearm
Applications
Elements of Inside Forearm Strike
Applications
Chapter 15: Elbow Strikes
Elements of Elbow Striking
Applications
Chapter 16: Kicking
Elements of Kicking
Targets
Applications
SECTION 4: VULNERABLE POINTS
Chapter 17: Get the Point
Elements of Pressing Vulnerable Points
Applications
SECTION 5: HEAD AND NECK
Chapter 18: Head Disorientation
Defense/Offense
Chapter 19: Carotid Constraint: Sleeper Holds
Sleeper hold
Choke hold
Elements of Getting Behind the Suspect
Elements of the Sleeper
Applications
Basic constriction when standing
On the Ground
Handcuffing
SECTION 6: GROUND FIGHTING
Chapter 20: Ground Grappling
The Learning Curve
Three Types of Suspects
Elements of Ground Fighting
The mount
Knee onto stomach and roll over
North-south control
Worst-case Scenarios
The hip escape
The Guard
Rolls
Simple sweep
Chapter 21: Ground Kicking and Trapping
Trapping
Kicking
SECTION 7: BATON
Chapter 22: Body Mechanics
Common errors
Increase Your Hitting Impact
Drawing
SECTION 8: ARRESTING BIG GUYS
Chapter 23: Facing a Big Suspect
Does Size Matter?
What about pepper spray?
Mental preparation
Preparation
Some almost nevers
Using your baton - targets
A psychological ploy
SECTION 9: TRAINING AND FIGHTING CONCEPTS
Chapter 24: Concepts
Survival Concepts
Training Concepts
Fighting Concepts
Concepts to take on patrol
Index
Introduction
It’s always amazed me how few police officers train in the martial arts. Most love to shoot, rarely turning down an opportunity to plink holes in paper targets, but how often have you seen an officer pantomiming an armbar in the roll call room or two partners taking turns applying wristlocks in the fleet garage? Sometimes you see recruits in the academy practicing defensive tactics during their breaks, but mostly it’s in preparation for an upcoming test. You hear them say enthusiastically that they want to perfect their tactics but that fades once they are assigned to a precinct.
I had about seven years of martial arts training under my belt when I joined the Portland Police Bureau, which included a year of practical fighting experience as an MP in Vietnam. The only other officer with martial arts experience was a judo black belt, the lone defensive tactics instructor. Over 1,100 officers and only two of us had martial arts training!
The fighting arts have been my life since 1965 so I often wonder why everyone doesn’t practices this incredible lifestyle. Then I remember that I’m a bit of a fanatic. Even so, the police job puts officers into the toxic realm of the human condition, a place that is often as bad as it can get. So why wouldn’t every officer want the additional edge that martial arts training gives? Beats me. Today, the fighting arts are more popular than ever and there are more officers training than there were a few years ago - but still not that many.
Another problem is that the number of defensive tactics instructors with a martial arts background is small. Usually what happens is that selected officers attend a two-week training seminar for certification to teach. I’ve only been to a couple of these as a trainer, so I can only guess that some are good and some aren’t. Even when they are outstanding, the graduates have a limited knowledge of defensive tactics as a martial art. Can they teach a wristlock and an armbar? Sure. But the odds are high they might: leave something out. not know how to help an officer who can’t apply a move properly when he is too short, too tall or too uncoordinated. not know when to change a pain technique to a leverage one. not understand the subtleties of balance. not understand the psychological/physiological link of different forms of distraction. not know how to block and shield. not know how to make a technique more effective. not know how to use various parts of the body as weapons. not understand the psychological/physiological link of blows to vulnerable targets. not know how to answer a host of “what if” questions.
I say this with complete respect for those officers who believe in defensive tactics enough to take the extra training (in some jurisdictions they do this on their own time and at their own expense) and then stand before the toughest audience in the world and impart what they know. Still, they don’t know the answers to the above because as non martial artists, the knowledge isn’t in their backgrounds. Nothing beats years of experience training, teaching and a